Striped Pajamas

[Carol]

Marianne wrote:
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> Has it been on this list that the Boy In The Striped Pajamas was discussed?
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> I watched it last weekend.  I was utterly shocked and upset by the ending.  I have never had a reaction to a movie before.  However it did make me think a lot.

Carol responds:
Potioncat and I tried to get a discussion going related to this movie, which she's seen and I wanted to see (I'd read a spoiler and knew about the ending), but no one seemed interested. 

I think it will be on Comcast Pay Per view (in the U.S.) soon--at least, I saw the trailer there when I accidentally clicked on channel 1 with the remote. 

Where did you see it? Was it on TV in England?

It's quite a role switch for David thewlis, which is why I originally brought it up both here and on the Movie list.

I think it's an important film that should have received more publicity, but I certainly wouldn't take a child to see it unless that child has been warned that the ending is shocking or has read the book. A teenager, yes. Kids need to know about the Holocaust, and a film like that might make it real to them and reach them in a way that "Schindler's List" might not because it's such a personal, easy-to-follow story.

Carol, hoping that the film comes out soon on DVD